oO!!!
I'm incredibly impressed!!!!!
Masterpiece!

How long did you do this?

Hi Mauro. Very nice! (Ti voglio bene!)

When I was in Italy, it was "Aprilia" and while sitting on the outskirts of town at 3.00 am, they would be "dicing" through chicane's of median's at like 80-90 mph.... (Car's too).

I would sit and laugh.... :)

Hi Mauro,

Great job!

Enjoyed reading the story and your explanation of your workflow as well!

Outstanding !!

Martin Spencer-Ford

COUGH, COUGH, COUGH!!!

Amazing result Mauro!

Very well done. :-)

Nice one Mauro! What a fantastic post.

Cheers

Love seeing this kind of work, and automotive work is not easy.

Excellent work, the models look great.

Hi Mauro, it looks fantastic! And what a cool post with all the historical background in there too - very nice!

- Michael

Nice work Mauro, looks like LOFT is steal alive.. :)

Nice Work!
I'm a UK based Alfaholic and have owned many since 1988, my first being an Alfa Sud Cloverleaf which I loved, especially the Boxer engine.
You have inspired me to have a go and modelling it in MOI, than you.

Hi Alex:
i'm glad this post can help you ! You're talking about Alfasud Quadrifoglio(cloverleaf) Green or Golden,it was very popular and unexpensive in first 80's.
and YES...best part is boxer engine..style is not cool here,belongs to 80's ;)



This is my quick suggest
car is splitted in two parts:red(glossy) and black(matte plastic)
You can try with LOFT than draw on side wiew one long spline where match red part with black bottom part of the car
extrude this spline to trim your loft and delete his bottom part
now use sweep to make fenders and all black bottom part
no need continuity bewteen red and black..and when render you will have the red part that is one mesh,glossy with his reflections
bottom part will be different mesh but is also matte,not glossy,so you'll not have reflections
hope you understand and forgive me for basic english :)
M

Hi Mauro,

Not very stylish I agree but it was a quick car in its day (sounded great) and handled well too, unfortunately it rusted as fast as it drove :(

Many thanks for the tips and advice on the modelling, I will keep you posted on my progress. It may take a while though due to time available etc, but will enjoy having a go.

Alex<<quick car in its days>>
YES ....you're right..and sound is a classic Alfa's feature :)
Alfasud was a car for Alfaholics and for family too...
In '80 rust was very common problem,especially for Fiats producted in Sicily(Termini Imerese)
factory was close to the sea,so..." exposed to salt ",all frames and sheets without an anti-rust treatment...


Alfa Montreal by Bertone's house




...when cars were REAL cars.... ;)

The last one reminds me a lot of a the corvette stingray that we had over here in the US.

I myself have one of these, in storage, it's halfway rebuilt. Someday I hope to get it finished:


1960 Dodge Matador 2 door hardtop:



- Michael

Agree Michael
Stingray and Montreal are 100% pure 70's style (my favourite era)
Fashion of that times (the best :) )
The Dodge Matador belongs to the 50's..where you Americans ruled in car-styling
..how many beautiful cars you did..and this one is feasible in Moi very well too.. :)

Hi Mauro,

> The Dodge Matador belongs to the 50's..where you Americans ruled in car-styling

Yeah my Dodge is from pretty much the end of that era, a lot of fun stuff was going on then with rocketship and sci-fi inspired styling.

- Michael

Mauro,

Very interesting, you clearly know the Alfa history, thank you.

I noticed the 75 next to the Montreal, I always wanted a V6 one, again not very pretty but an awesome drivers car (as are all Alfa's)

Another cool one!